The Sentinels kovaa karhun

hope you don't mind me!

It was habit that woke Starbuck with the sun. She would spend her nights stargazing and fall asleep where she lay. It had been many months since she had lived in a den proper, and had found that sleeping beneath the stars in the warm summer months was not unpleasant. Soon, she knew, the season would turn and she would have to take shelter. Soon, but not yet.

This morning she woke as the sun first breached the horizon, it's light brilliant after the darkness of night. Starbuck stood where she was and stretched, letting out a great yawn before striding forward. Some mornings she woke before the sun and sang it into the sky, but it was too late for that. Instead she set out to explore her new home, as she had been for several days now. 

She was not far along when she heard the footsteps of another, their thud quick but dull. Interested in meeting a packmate, Starbuck sped up, sprinting towards where she heard another speeding along.

Soon she saw him, a great bear of a wolf. He was larger and faster than she, but she was not put off, even after her meeting with the wretch of a man several days prior. Hail! she called between puffs of breath. Her legs ate up the earth beneath her in long strides, but unless he slowed down she would not be able to catch up.